diff --git a/Doc/api/api.tex b/Doc/api/api.tex
index 9396960..d4d2425 100644
--- a/Doc/api/api.tex
+++ b/Doc/api/api.tex
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
 To include the headers, place both directories (if different) on your
 compiler's search path for includes.  Do \emph{not} place the parent
 directories on the search path and then use
-\samp{\#include <python\var{version}/Python.h>}; this will break on
+\samp{\#include <python\shortversion/Python.h>}; this will break on
 multi-platform builds since the platform independent headers under
 \envvar{prefix} include the platform specific headers from
 \envvar{exec_prefix}.
@@ -550,14 +550,13 @@
 interpreter executable, assuming that the Python library is found in a
 fixed location relative to the Python interpreter executable.  In
 particular, it looks for a directory named
-\file{lib/python\var{version}} (replacing \var{version} with the current
-interpreter version) relative to the parent directory where the
-executable named \file{python} is found on the shell command search
-path (the environment variable \envvar{PATH}).
+\file{lib/python\shortversion} relative to the parent directory where
+the executable named \file{python} is found on the shell command
+search path (the environment variable \envvar{PATH}).
 
 For instance, if the Python executable is found in
 \file{/usr/local/bin/python}, it will assume that the libraries are in
-\file{/usr/local/lib/python\var{version}}.  (In fact, this particular path
+\file{/usr/local/lib/python\shortversion}.  (In fact, this particular path
 is also the ``fallback'' location, used when no executable file named
 \file{python} is found along \envvar{PATH}.)  The user can override
 this behavior by setting the environment variable \envvar{PYTHONHOME},
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsite.tex b/Doc/lib/libsite.tex
index 2814fe3..b895a73 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsite.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsite.tex
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 tail part.  For the head part, it uses \code{sys.prefix} and
 \code{sys.exec_prefix}; empty heads are skipped.  For
 the tail part, it uses the empty string (on Macintosh or Windows) or
-it uses first \file{lib/python{\var{version}}/site-packages} and then
+it uses first \file{lib/python\shortversion/site-packages} and then
 \file{lib/site-python} (on \UNIX{}).  For each of the distinct
 head-tail combinations, it sees if it refers to an existing directory,
 and if so, adds to \code{sys.path}, and also inspected for path
@@ -39,10 +39,10 @@
 
 For example, suppose \code{sys.prefix} and \code{sys.exec_prefix} are
 set to \file{/usr/local}.  The Python \version\ library is then
-installed in \file{/usr/local/lib/python\var{version}} (where
-\var{version} is the first three characters of \code{sys.version}).
-Suppose this has a subdirectory
-\file{/usr/local/lib/python\var{version}/site-packages} with three
+installed in \file{/usr/local/lib/python\shortversion} (where only the
+first three characters of \code{sys.version} are used to form the
+installation path name).  Suppose this has a subdirectory
+\file{/usr/local/lib/python\shortversion/site-packages} with three
 subsubdirectories, \file{foo}, \file{bar} and \file{spam}, and two
 path configuration files, \file{foo.pth} and \file{bar.pth}.  Assume
 \file{foo.pth} contains the following:
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
index 3e9cc53..3d5f68f 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
@@ -869,7 +869,8 @@
 
 Modules built into the interpreter are written like this:
 \code{<module 'sys' (built-in)>}.  If loaded from a file, they are
-written as \code{<module 'os' from '/usr/local/lib/python1.5/os.pyc'>}.
+written as \code{<module 'os' from
+'/usr/local/lib/python\shortversion/os.pyc'>}.
 
 
 \subsubsection{Classes and Class Instances \label{typesobjects}}